Old man Quote by Robert Penn Warren

“But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a…

— Katherine Boo

“What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.”

— Charlie Lovett

“At all events, when I look back upon the boy I was, I see the beginnings of a real person who fades little by…

— Anonymous

“Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life,…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The world seemed somehow different when one was lying down. Darker, more dangerous ... And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance…

— Julia Quinn

“The grandpa just stares backward at a world that no longer exists, or forward at a world beyond his comprehension.”

— David R. Gillham

“The world turned itself into a better place around him.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“And though he has watched a decent age pass by, a man will sometimes still desire the world.”

— Melinda Haynes

“Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he.”

— Sylvia Engdahl

“He had not known a world that did not have her in it. Yet now he was going to discover just that.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill